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So it was interesting to me how fully committed and into this he was once we started going. He told me a lot of stuff I never knew. And he's one of the only rock stars you'll ever meet who speaks in full paragraphs." Taylor decided to call the audio memoir "Break Shot: My First 21 Years." The title is a reference to the first shot of a billiards game, when the cue ball slams into the other balls, sending them off into various directions. For Taylor, that moment occurred when he left his Massachusetts boarding school, Milton Academy, and went to McLean. But "it had been building," he says, "to a real discontinuity:" His father's alcoholism had reached a critical point. His parents' marriage was coming to an end. The Vietnam War was underway. John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. had been assassinated. The United States was living under the threat of nuclear annihilation amid the Cuban Missile Crisis. Break it He was on the precipice of adulthood, but he didn't have any direction. Growing up, Taylor often felt crushed by the weight of his family's unspoken expectations. His father was, as he puts it, "the ultimate academician" — a star student who went from Harvard Medical School to head resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. When Taylor and his four siblings were still kids, their father uprooted them from the Northeast to North Carolina, where he would later become dean of the University of North Carolina Medical School. But as he remembers in "Break Shot," Taylor wasn't getting any clear instruction from his parents on how to achieve such success — about how to apply to college or pursue a career. He grapples with his relationship to his parents throughout the audio memoir, which he says he largely felt comfortable making at all because his parents are no longer around. Less than a month before the Jan. 31 release of the Audible project, Taylor was still uneasy about the prospect of sharing it with the world. Because the final touches had yet to be put on the audio version of the story, his representatives would allow The Los Angeles Times to review only the manuscript of "Break Shot" — and to read it on Taylor's property. The singer-songwriter says his hesitation came from a fear that someone might "furiously read it and mine it for its prurient or sensational aspects" before release. The abbreviated memoir does delve into his infamous drug use — he didn't get sober until his mid-30s — and in one scene, he recalls how he accidentally gave John Lennon a dose of methadone "too big to be taken by a civilian …. I am sure glad I didn't kill John Lennon that day," he says. Independent & Level 2 Assisted Living Community 2300 SE 28th Street | Bentonville 479.273.9969 www.themeadowsinbentonville.com We are a Family Owned and Operated Award Winning Level 2 Assisted Living Community located in Bentonville Best of Northwest Arkansas the Best Meat in NWA Deli Fresh Produce Areas Largest Selection of Natural Foods allENsFoodmarkEt.Com Open 7 days a week ButChErs oN duty Nightly uNtil 7pm 60 Sugar Creek Center • Bella Vista, AR 479-876-6190 Kent Mason, MD Greg Reiter, DO Michael Clouatre, MD Ashley Mason, MD Darrin Cunningham, DO Samantha Corral, CNM DR. DARRIN CUNNINGHAM WOMEN'S CLINIC MEDICAL FACILITY CREEKSIDE CENTER FOR WOMEN Thank You NWA for Votes and Your Continued Support! We Are Proud to Serve You! Creekside Center for Women provides health care to women of all ages in a caring and inviting atmosphere. Visit CreeksideOBGYN.com to see a full list if our services, meet our doctors, and learn how Creekside can provide for all of your reproductive and gynecological needs. Kent Mason, MD Greg Reiter, DO Michael Clouatre, MD Ashley Mason, MD Darrin Cunningham, DO Samantha Corral, CNM DR. DARRIN CUNNINGHAM WOMEN'S CLINIC MEDICAL FACILITY CREEKSIDE CENTER FOR WOMEN Thank You NWA for Votes and Your Continued Support! We Are Proud to Serve You! Creekside Center for Women provides health care to women of all ages in a caring and inviting atmosphere. Visit CreeksideOBGYN.com to see a full list if our services, meet our doctors, and learn how Creekside can provide for all of your reproductive and gynecological needs. Kent Mason, MD Greg Reiter, DO Michael Clouatre, MD Ashley Mason, MD Darrin Cunningham, DO Samantha Corral, CNM DR. DARRIN CUNNINGHAM WOMEN'S CLINIC MEDICAL FACILITY CREEKSIDE CENTER FOR WOMEN Thank You NWA for Votes and Your Continued Support! We Are Proud to Serve You! Creekside Center for Women provides health care to women of all ages in a caring and inviting atmosphere. Visit CreeksideOBGYN.com to see a full list if our services, meet our doctors, and learn how Creekside can provide for all of your reproductive and gynecological needs. MARCH 29-APRIL 4, 2020 WHAT'S UP! 39 Singer James Taylor tips his hat after performing a song at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) See Taylor Page 40